linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] drm/nouveau/uvmm: Allow larger pages

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Message-ID: <c0e0fc355af99c60e19a5db6aca292eb67365cc7.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:09:26 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, Mohamed Ahmed
	 <mohamedahmedegypt2001@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Mary
 Guillemard <mary@...y.zone>, Faith Ekstrand <faith.ekstrand@...labora.com>,
 Maarten Lankhorst	 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
 <mripard@...nel.org>,  Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David
 Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, 
	nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] drm/nouveau/uvmm: Allow larger pages

On Wed, 2025-10-22 at 22:56 +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On 10/22/25 12:16 PM, Mohamed Ahmed wrote:
> > Pinging again re: review and also was asking if we can revert the
> > select_page_shift() handling back to v1 behavior with a fall-back
> > path, as it looks like there are some cases where
> > nouveau_bo_fixup_align() isn't enough;
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36450#note_3159199.
> 
> I don't think we should add a fallback for something that is expected to be
> sufficient.
> 
> Instead we should figure out in which exact case the WARN_ON() was hit and why.


Yeah - I was about to respond but decided to dig a bit into
nouveau_bo_fixup_align().

Hopefully this isn't silly but, maybe this line at the bottom of
nouveau_bo_fixup_align() has something to do with it:

	*size = roundup_64(*size, PAGE_SIZE);

Since PAGE_SIZE is 4096, so whatever size we come up with it seems like we're
still rounding to 4K.

One other concern I have with the way that the previous and current series
seem to be checking alignment requirements: _maybe_ there isn't a better way
of doing this, but:

static bool
op_map_aligned_to_page_shift(const struct drm_gpuva_op_map *op, u8 page_shift)
{
	u64 page_size = 1ULL << page_shift;

	return op->va.addr % page_size == 0 && op->va.range % page_size == 0 &&
		   op->gem.offset % page_size == 0;
}

In this function, op->va.addr is u64 and so is page_size. This will compile on
64 bit kernels, but many 32 bit architectures don't actually have native
division or modulus for u64 x u64 and you need to use the functions in
<linux/math64.h> so you get these operations emulated on 32 bit arches.

That being said though - it would be really good if we could actually just
avoid doing modulus here entirely. Modulus tends to be quite slow when
emulated on 32 bit, and my understanding is it's not all that much faster on
some 64 bit arches like arm. Are we sure that we need this function at all if
we fix nouveau_bo_fixup_align()?
-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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